Wireframe Front

Deliver Comprehensive 1/10/40G Backbone Services

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches deliver comprehensive network services, performance, and scale, optimized for your campus core and distribution network. Find out why more than 45,000 customers worldwide have made the Catalyst 6500 Series their strategic platform.

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Cisco IOS 15.1(1)SY1 for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series is now available. (3:44 min)

Get Resiliency, Security, and More

Features and Capabilities

At Cisco, we will continue to invest -- hundreds of million dollars over the next 3 years alone -- in a 3-dimensional roadmap to:

Improve performance and scale

Advance our comprehensive, high-quality network services

Bring you innovative campus features and designs that will lower total cost of ownership

Greater Scalability with Supervisor Engine 2T

You can unlock the full potential of the Catalyst 6500 Series with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T. It provides the scale, security, and simplified management to help you address emerging trends such as the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplace and interactive collaboration.

A Lippis Report concluded that the upgrade to the Supervisor Engine 2T "is (Cisco's) most ambitious and thoughtful yet." Features include: